]]>http://msbusiness.com/2014/08/tobacco-company-pay-750k-contraband-trafficking/feed/192150Corrections spends $1.3M on netting in war on contrabandhttp://msbusiness.com/2014/03/corrections-spends-1-3m-netting-war-contracband/
http://msbusiness.com/2014/03/corrections-spends-1-3m-netting-war-contracband/#respondTue, 18 Mar 2014 14:37:42 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=86911JACKSON — Mississippi corrections officials have added netting, body scanners and monthly prison searches to a growing list of steps to keep illegal cellphones, drugs, tobacco and other contraband out of prisoners’ hands. “We are in a new era where people will use any means to get contraband into prisons,” Commissioner Christopher B. Epps said ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2014/03/corrections-spends-1-3m-netting-war-contracband/feed/086911Plea saves Ky. man from charges for contraband tobaccohttp://msbusiness.com/2013/05/plea-saves-ky-man-from-charges-for-contraband-tobacco/
http://msbusiness.com/2013/05/plea-saves-ky-man-from-charges-for-contraband-tobacco/#respondThu, 30 May 2013 19:36:02 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=75637LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Florida tobacco distributor long watched by federal investigators has pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy in a scheme to avoid paying taxes owed on online cigarette sales in Kentucky. Pedro “Peter” Bello became the second person to admit to plotting to use phony invoices to avoid paying taxes on millions ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2013/05/plea-saves-ky-man-from-charges-for-contraband-tobacco/feed/075637Two men, tobacco company indicted for contraband cigaretteshttp://msbusiness.com/2013/05/two-men-tobacco-company-indicted-for-contraband-cigarettes/
http://msbusiness.com/2013/05/two-men-tobacco-company-indicted-for-contraband-cigarettes/#respondWed, 15 May 2013 20:16:25 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=74829OXFORD — Two Kentucky men and a tobacco company have been indicted for their alleged involvement in the trafficking of contraband cigarettes. David Brian Cooper, 47, George Bertram, 53, both of Jamestown, Ky., and Tantus Tobacco Co of Russell Springs, Ky., pleaded not guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Oxford. Trial is scheduled for ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2013/05/two-men-tobacco-company-indicted-for-contraband-cigarettes/feed/074829Man gets three years in prison for contraband cigaretteshttp://msbusiness.com/2012/11/man-gets-three-years-in-prison-for-contraband-cigarettes/
http://msbusiness.com/2012/11/man-gets-three-years-in-prison-for-contraband-cigarettes/#respondFri, 09 Nov 2012 17:54:45 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=65015OXFORD — An Arkansas man has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the trafficking of contraband cigarettes. James B. Trosper, of Rogers Ark., pleaded guilty in 2011 to three counts involving the scheme. WTVA-TV reports Trosper was sentenced in federal court in Oxford. Prosecutors said Trosper and others were involved ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2012/11/man-gets-three-years-in-prison-for-contraband-cigarettes/feed/065015Tennessee man to be sentenced for role in contraband cigarette schemehttp://msbusiness.com/2012/06/tennessee-man-to-be-sentenced-for-role-in-contraband-cigarette-scheme/
http://msbusiness.com/2012/06/tennessee-man-to-be-sentenced-for-role-in-contraband-cigarette-scheme/#respondMon, 25 Jun 2012 16:11:35 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=59026TUPELO — A Tennessee man will be sentenced July 30 for his role in routing tobacco through Mississippi to avoid taxes, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports. Randy Benham of Cordova, Tenn., pleaded guilty in 2009 in U.S. District Court to counts of fraud, false statements and money laundering. Benham, along with Jerry G. Burke ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2012/06/tennessee-man-to-be-sentenced-for-role-in-contraband-cigarette-scheme/feed/059026Man pleads guilty to role in contraband tobacco scamhttp://msbusiness.com/2011/12/man-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-contraband-tobacco-scam/
http://msbusiness.com/2011/12/man-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-contraband-tobacco-scam/#respondThu, 15 Dec 2011 18:40:26 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=49704TUPELO — A South Carolina man is the latest person to plead guilty to federal charges related to a scheme to avoid paying taxes on thousands of packs of cigarettes. Fred Brackett of Lancaster pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court. The indictment in the case says Bracket bought more than 188,000 cartons of cigarettes ...

]]>http://msbusiness.com/2011/12/man-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-contraband-tobacco-scam/feed/049704Illegal tobacco to be soldhttp://msbusiness.com/2009/07/illegal-tobacco-to-be-sold/
http://msbusiness.com/2009/07/illegal-tobacco-to-be-sold/#respondMon, 13 Jul 2009 13:42:40 +0000http://msbusiness.com/?p=1635JACKSON — The state House and Senate have passed a bill that would authorize State Auditor Stacey Pickering and Tax Commissioner Ed Morgan to sell tobacco seized in an undisclosed warehouse found in Mississippi in April. The estimated retail value of the contraband tobacco is $20 million and the unpaid state taxes total over $5 ...